On Sunday, 3 of August 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 05:39:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Actually what a material number of embedded systems need is a single > > dumb-as-a-rock CF only PIO driver which doesn't suck in large chunks of > > midlayer code. I'm just not sure that trend will continue as CF is giving > > way to other smaller media. > > I bet we'll see CF for a long time, because it is the only cheap > removable media to support IDE emulation and be bootable from an > unmodified PC BIOS. SD is cheaper and will soon provide larger > capacities, but it still requires a separate controller and is > not bootable with standard BIOSes. > > Anyway, in my experience, libata supports CF on embedded controllers > pretty well. So maybe we should start marking IDE drivers deprecated > to encourage people to try libata instead and report breakage if any. Well, I know of at least one case of PC hardware in which an old IDE driver basically works while the libata/pata poeple have no idea why their driver doesn't: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9157 Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
